To give you another little taste of how twisted and depraved our world is, check out this Boston woman who is suing both Planned Parenthood and her doctors for a bad abortion...one in which she ended up giving birth to her now 2 year-old daughter:

The complaint was filed by Jennifer Raper, 45, last week in Suffolk Superior Court and still must be screened by a special panel before it can proceed to trial.

Raper claimed in the three-page medical malpractice suit that she found out she was pregnant in March 2004 and decided to have an abortion for financial reasons.

Dr. Allison Bryant, a physician working for Planned Parenthood at the time, performed the procedure on April 9, 2004, but it "was not done properly, causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant," according to the complaint.

Rather than giving up the child for adoption (novel approach that would have been!), she keeps the unwanted child and raises what is sure to be a little girl in great need of some serious counseling. So, we have a case where a woman who doesn't want a child, keeps it and then demands someone else pay for her to raise it rather than find a loving home.

Raper alleges in the suit that Planned Parenthood and Bryant were negligent for failing to end her pregnancy and that Eleonu was negligent for failing to see she was still pregnant.

Besides the obvious, this case highlights how absurd our society is in that there are actually laws in Massachusetts (no surprise there) in the books that make allowance for this type of lawsuit:

The state's high court ruled in 1990 that parents can sue physicians for child-rearing expenses, but limited those claims to cases in which children require extraordinary expenses because of medical problems, medical malpractice lawyer Andrew C. Meyer Jr. said.

This simply demonstrates some of the well-known problems with abortion and brings out questions of how unwanted pregnancies are dealt with. Personally, rather than awarding this lady a single penny, I think child-protective services ought to get involved, remove the child from the woman's custody and provide an environment in which it is certain that this child will be loved and properly cared for. After all, she's already tried to kill her once.

In an instance when this woman should be charged with attempted murder (in a sane world), she'll probably end up a very rich woman "caring for" a child she never wanted and probably doesn't still (in the insane world in which we live). Once again I say, God help us.

HT: WorldMagBlog
Full Boston Globe story here.

Labels: abortion, David C. Price, ethics, morals